It’s 35 minutes across five lessons and takes you through the process of converting the progressive OSMF video player (which we create in the first installment of this course on Building Progressive Video Players with Adobe OSMF, into a dynamic multi-bitrate streaming player. Multi-bitrate streaming occurs when you program your Flash to deliver the highest quality video a viewer can see (dependent on their bandwidth). *Dynamic* multi-bitrate streaming is similar, with the additional feature of having your player constantly meters the bandwidth throughout viewing, to adjust the playback between multiple videos seamlessly, as the viewer’s bandwidth may fluctuate. …read more…
I’ve just publicly released the first available output from the Synesthesizer — a side-project, executed in Flash, that translates pictures into music. The Synesthesizer is the first tangible product of Project Ludi, an internal skunkworks project here at Almer/Blank, the goal of which is to translate any type of media into any other type of media.
The Synesthesizer is a Flash 10 musical synthesizer that relies on synesthesia-inspired translation metaphors.
This coming Wednesday, December 2nd, I’ll be giving my new talk, Hearing Pictures at the LA Flash End-Of-Year Party. This will be only the second time I’ve given this talk — I first gave it at the FITC Unconference at MAX 2009. Since I was speaking at an unconference (a less formal environment, with very different criteria for acceptability than the normal conference tracks), I used the opportunity to create a brand new talk on a sort of crazy idea that’s been nagging me for a few years — the idea of translating anything into anything.